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Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo has a lion enclosure of this sort — and yes, there are sometimes some very interesting interactions between the big cats and small apes. I’m not sure it’s “hunt” as much as “play” — or sometimes “go away, kid, ya bother me” — but from prey’s point of view there may not be a lot of difference.

I hate to be that guy, but I just watched “Apocalypto” for the first time last week and consequently, with the help of Wikipedia, I learned that it’s the Jaguar that is known for biting into the skulls of its prey. Fun facts!

Well, considering that this is a (presumably) well-fed zoo animal, and the the observation that all felids have a very strong adoption instinct, I wonder if the lioness is not so much interested in eating the human child as trying to pick it up by the scruff of its neck and transport it to safety.

I may be overly influenced by my cat Pucky’s reaction on her first encounter with a field mouse, which involved the space behind the refrigerator and the proximity to Puck’s nipples.

Sorry, but I’ve got cats too, and I recognize that behaviour. Kitteh may be cute, but that baby looks just like a giant kitteh treat. Not used to seeing it in lions, though.

Sigfried and Roy’s Garden in Las Vegas (out behind the Mirage Casino, assuming it’s still there) has a bunch of cats who aren’t busy with the show right now. The lions and tigers are usually asleep most of the day, and if there are small children around they’re like, yeah, whatever. The leopard has a cage about 20′ long, and one time we were there and there was a kid who’d gotten separated from his herd\\family, and the leopard was just pacing back and forth looking at him, thinking “I’m gonna eat him! He’s lunch! When he gets just a bit farther from the herd, I’m gonna jump over the fence and eat him! Mine!” and this was no kitty playing, this was pure focused predator intent on jumping him. After a while the kid got back together with his herd, and the leopard backed off a bit, and a little later on another small herd of smaller kids walked by, and he was back to the “I can eat all three of those! It’s only going to take one jump! Roar, nom nom, they’re mine!”

Were they about you being unable to get the potato chips open? Or about your cat going for the bag of them? Mine wouldn’t be bothered by the force field, he’d just keep shredding until he got it open, and found they weren’t cat treats.

Anyone else think of James Thurber’s The Glass in the Field?
“A short time ago some builders, working on a studio in Connecticut, left a large square of plate glass standing upright in a field one day. A goldfinch flying swiftly across the field struck the glass and was knocked cold. When he came to, he hastened to his club, where an attendant bandaged his head and gave him a stiff drink.”

That kid’s head looks less like a zebra and more like a soccer ball to me. Any chance the lion was trying to pick up what it thought was a ball? Or am I just adorably naive about the antics of caged cats?

Lexan: the child’s best friend! There’s an underwater viewing gallery (to view things under water, the gallery itself is quite dry) at the Toronto zoo where you can look at polar bears swimming about. Every so often a paw the size of a dinner plate zips out to test the integrity of the window near your head.